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*Udi Aloni on Israeli Palestinian Binationalism at Levantine Center tonight, Friday, Nov. 18 at 7:30 pm with Mark Levine and Gil Hochberg. * *Levantine Center: 5998 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035* *Controversial author/filmmaker Udi Aloni will talk about directing Beckett in the Jenin refugee camp, show excerpts from his films and engage in public conversation at the Levantine Cultural Center, followed afterward by a semi-private party. Aloni is the author of the new book What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters, and the director of the critically-acclaimed film Forgiveness. He also recently directed "Waiting for Godot" in the Jenin refugee camp's Freedom Theatre. Aloni will be joined by Middle East historian and author Mark LeVine of UC Irvine, author ofHeavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam, and An Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989. Also joining the conversation is UCLA professor Gil Hochberg, author of In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.* *More info below* *Friday, *Nov 18 2011 7:30pm - 11:30pm Price: $12 general, $10 members/seniors, $8 students Party to follow. Where: Levantine Cultural Center 5998 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035 between Fairfax and La Cienega street parking or in the CVS underground lot Controversial author/filmmaker Udi Aloni will talk about directing Beckett in the Jenin refugee camp, show excerpts from his films and engage in public conversation at the Levantine Cultural Center, followed afterward by a semi-private party. Aloni is the author of the new book *What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters*, and the director of the critically-acclaimed film Forgiveness. He also recently directed "Waiting for Godot" in the Jenin refugee camp's Freedom Theatre. Aloni will be joined by Middle East historian and author Mark LeVine of UC Irvine, author of*Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam*, and* An Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989*. Also joining the conversation is UCLA professor Gil Hochberg, author of *In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination*. [image: Author/filmmaker Udi Aloni] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udi_Aloni> *Author/filmmaker Udi Aloni*In the new book from Columbia University Press, *What Does a Jew Want?*, in hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians dare to walk together toward a joint Israel-Palestine? Through a collage of meditation, interview, diary, and essay, Aloni and his interlocutors present a personal, intellectual, and altogether provocative account rich with the insights of philosophy and critical theory. They ultimately foresee the emergence of a binational Israeli-Palestinian state, incorporating the work of Walter Benjamin, Edward Said, and Jewish theology to recast the conflict in secular theological terms. [image: Director Udi Aloni with young Palestinian actors from Jenin, in New York] <http://www.thefreedomtheatre.org/>*Director Udi Aloni with young Palestinian actors from Jenin, in New York*Aloni with young Palestinian actors from Jenin, in New York: photo: New York TimesUdi Aloni is an Israeli/American writer and filmmaker whose work explores the discourse between art, theory, and action. His art projects have been presented in leading museums and galleries, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his films Kashmir: Journey to Freedom (2009), Forgiveness (2006), and Local Angel (2003) have been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, among other prominent venues. This book was published shortly after the murder of his dear friend, Juliano Mer-Khamis, director of the Freedom Theater in Jenin Refugee Camp, where Aloni helped him run the Cinema Department. in 2011, Aloni directed with the actors of the Freedom Theater an Arabic version of "Waiting for Godot" and brought it to New York in October as "While Waiting for Godot." Read the *New York Times*<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/theater/freedom-theater-students-perform-at-columbia-university.html?pagewanted=all> article. Of his film Forgiveness, Slavoj Zizek wrote, "Maybe the most beautiful, powerful and important film made about the tragedies of the Middle East." *What People are Saying About the Book* "Udi Aloni has written a remarkable series of love letters to what his country could be, challenging his fellow Jews to escape from all of our ghettos, whether physical or psychological. Aloni's political courage is contagious and reading him is a libratory experience." —Naomi Klein "Aloni's secular theology is definitely one of the most fascinating innovations of our time. So, if you want to dwell in your blessed secular ignorance, then do not read this book-at your own risk!" —Slavoj Žižek "Udi Aloni provides us with a measure of the distance between our capacity for understanding and the terrors we choose instead. His art is trembling the underground, indeed. Boundless admiration." —Tony Kushner Read an interview in Jadaliyya<http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2846/what-does-a-jew-want-> . 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